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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2467459, member: 19463&quot;]You have an advantage over the rest of us in that you can see the coin itself while we see photos but what I see is a messy, overstruck, low grade example that can not be IDed with 100% certainty but which seems, perhaps, to be a very common Justin II and Sophia.&nbsp; I do not have the exact year and officina but mine is from the same mint.&nbsp; The date on yours is clearly the special one digit 6 not used in all periods but certainly used by Justin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]518312[/ATTACH] </p><p>When a coin can not be identified with certainty, the value is less than the low option.&nbsp; It is up to you to establish that it definitely is something &#039;different&#039;.&nbsp; When this involves a coin overstruck on a different coin or doublestruck on its own type, we must establish what both strike were before the value increases.&nbsp; Collectors of series (like Byzantine) famous for being &#039;ugly&#039; develop a special sense that helps them interpret squiggles with some ability beyond what the rest of us can see.&nbsp; Their &#039;theories&#039; carry some greater weight than my amateur guesses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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